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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1916)
ditoria! Page of "The Capital Journa WKDXKSDAV KVIIMM! Kfl.riisirv 2:!. l!Mo CHARLES H. FISHER, Editor aad Manager. PUBLISHED EVEBY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. I H. BARNES. President CHAS. H FISHER. Vice-President DORA C. ANDBESEN. Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Baily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year . . . .$5.00 Per month. . 3.00 Per month. .45c .35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH KEPOBT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago - Wir4-Lewii-Williama Special Agency Hurry E. liaher Co. Tribune Building 30 K. Dearborn St. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porta. If the carrier does not do this, misses yuti, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation munuger, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 81. PORTLAND'S CONTENTION IS CORRECT "DEMOCRATIC" MALADMINISTRATION We do not agree with the Oregonian on many things, mostly political, but its stand in thd Astoria rate case strikes a responsive chord, for we believe it is correct. It is the only newspaper in Portland that seems to under stand the importance of the event, and what it means to Portland. It realizes the situation is grave and says so in no uncertain terms. The Oregonian points out that while it conceded Astoria's contention was correct, that Portland's salva tion as a shipping point was at stake, and that a vigorous, united and persistent fight must be made until she is given preferential rates as compared with those of Astoria or the Sound. For forty years Portland has spent her money gener ously to open the Columbia, and remove the bar at its mouth. Through her efforts the general government has done a great work, and Portland has not stood idly by while this was being done, but has put up her coin and her energy in aiding the good and necessary work. She has done a man's part in opening and deepening the channel of the Columbia and made herself an inland seaport. Her work has brought the sea 110 miles nearer the Inland Empire than Astoria. Why should she not be allowed the advantages aris ing from this work? Astoria has an undoubted right to have the same rates as Sound ports, anil indeed from a strictly honest view, really a little better rates for the reason the haul is shprter. Why should Portland not have better rates on grain from the great wheat belt of eastern Oregon and Wash ington than Seattle with a great mountain climb or a haul through Portland 180 miles longer, or than Tacoma with a haul of 150 miles further, or Astoria 110 miles? At the loading end of the routes the railroads are careful to make rates according to the length of haul. The rates from Wallowa to Portland are higher than from Pendleton. Why? Because the haul is longer. They are higher from Pendleton to Portland than from The Dalles or Biggs. Why? Because the haul is longer. Why should distance be always counted by the raliroads on one end of their roads and not on the other? It costs as much to haul grain from Portland to Seattle as it does from Pendleton to Portland. Why then does the railroad make a charge as far as Portland and none from that point to Seattle or Tacoma? If the railroads are paid sufficiently for hauling grain from Pendleton to Seattle by way of Portland they are paid too much for hauling it from Pendleton to Portland. That is an indisputable statement. If the rate they now have from Pendleton to Astoria is enough, then the same charge for hauling the same grain from Pendleton to Portland passes out of the realm of profit and becomes larceny. In making this discrimination against Portland they must rob the grain grower to pay for their favoritism. Then too, it costs towage and other expenses for ships to come from Astoria to Portland and the dill'erential in Portland's favor should be large enough to cover this ex pense to put her on an equality with other terminal points. Why should the railroads haul grain from Portland to Astoria for nothing, in competition with paid river traffic? There is no possible light in which the situation can be seen that does not back Portland's contention and point to a lower rate for Portland than her competitors as the only honest, square solution of the problem. It is right, and therefore wrongs no one. Now comes another faddist with the proposition that America make her armaments strong enough to guaran tee the peace of the world, saying if this was done the nations of Europe would join her in ruling out wars of aggression. He is certainly an optimist to propose such a thing when according to some statesmen we are not able just now to guard ourselves against being overrun by any nation that is in an over running mood. Nebraska has a republican candidate for the republi can nomination for the presidency. That is, there is a league formed in that state for the purpose of nominating Henry D. Estabrook, of Nebraska and New York. You see the league understands it can hardly expect to get a presidential nominee from west . of the Mississippi, so generously shares its candidate with the great sta'e of New York, for political purposes only. The league is charmingly frank in its statement of the desire of the republicans of Nebraska and as it claims of the balance of the country. It says: "The republicans want to put an end to democratic maladministration of national af fairs." Had they left out that word "democratic," they would have been less ingenuous, and perhaps much further from the truth. It will be noticed that it is only "Democratic" maladministration of national affairs, that is worrying the Estabrook League of Nebraska. The republican brand would be all right. The two Fruitdale boys who Monday dragged three little girls and a boy all younger than themselves, from an icy pond, and they were each only twelve, showed they not only had grit but initiative. They realized it was up to them to do the saving, and they did it as well and per haps better than older folks might have done. If there are any Carnegie medals not working, the right place is designated for two of them. The English house of parliament Monday voted an additional war credit of 420,000,000. This brings the total for the war up to 2,082,000,000 or in round numbers $10,000,000,000. The interest alone on this sum at 5 per cent would amount to $1,:!70,000 a day, yet the govern ment is not discouraged and asserts the country's ability to meet all its obligations and that every dollar of this debt is backed by gold. That peppery gentleman over in Seattle who is so dis gruntled and indignant because some one spoke rather disrespectfully of Washington, had he stopped to think would have realized that all his life he had daily over heard much worse things said about God, and he never resented them either. Why? Milwaukie grange recently discussed the question: "To what extent does the prosperity of the farm depend on the farmer's wife?'' ' The grange unanimously answered the question correctly saying it was 100 per cent. They modestly added however; "plus the activity of the husband." A dispatch yesterday says Indian Agent Crane was killed by Indians at the Keams Canyon agency last Fri day. That news has a familiar sound to the old timers, and it does not seem so many years ago either that chat kind of dispatches was common. ft OPEN FORUM THE COUNTY AGRICULTURIST v , '. " . The Russians might make more rapid progress through Armenia if they did not try to memorize the names of the places they captured and also to pronounce them. They moved right along after taking Mush, prob" ably looking for Milk. Grants Pass turned the first sod on the site of its $000,000 sugar factory Monday, and Tuesday the price of sugar which had been steadily advancing, dropped 10 cents on the hundred. Decidedly quick returns. To the Editor: Mr. .lames, of lioauty Valley, for several years had been rais ing more bushels of wheat to the nere: th.in any other tanner nrnmul the coun-i try. Many of his neighbors tried hard to do as well, but they never eould come ii with hi in. His wheat always looked io uniform all over the field and stayed so free from mixture with other kinds of wheat. Jt never entered their minds that the reason for it was other than bettor methods of handling the soil. One year smut was bad .ill over the country,' trot Mr. .rames' wheat showed very few; signs of it. Then his neighbors began to get a little superstitious about it, aiut said it was provideuec. The next year Mr. .lames sold his wheat to his neigh-1 bors for seed at a high figure. They all raised .1 btiiimper crop the coming summer, and laid the eouse to the sea son. One day the county agriculturist I called on Mr. James and asked him how lie managed to grow such wheat. Mr. j James took him out into the field nml : pointing to several different heads of: whe.it said, "Do you see any differ-1 enee in them?" ''Surp I do," replied, the agriculturist. "This head nnd thisj one are a great ileal longer and plumper! than the rest of them. There will be as in ue h again wheat in this head as in I that little one there." That is the! secret of 111 v success," replied Mr. James. "Every ve.ir T go through mvj field just before I cut it and spend a , half a day selecting the best heads I can find. I gather enough to make rue, a peck of grain when it is sheller. I. sow that on a quarter acre of ground and raise mv next veil's seed from that. Now that is all there is to it. My place is snm'l. and f only raise five! acres of wheat a year, iiut two years! ago when the smut was so bad I raised twelve bushels more to the acre than any of my neighbors. 1 never sold a liusnel tor less than a dollar. 1 call sixty dollars pretty good pay for n half i a (lav s work. ! " I tell you, Mr. James, I am going to, pread the gospei of vour success all! over the country," remarked the eomi-i ty agriculturist. "Yes would like to hive you tell every farmer in Million county about; it, if it would do them any good," re plied Mr. James. "If every farmer ini Marion county would practice my ineth-j oil of seed selection Marion countv wheat would become famous the world 1 over. Ue coluiln t liegin to supply the i demand for seed wheat at double the! market price. ' ' j "I'll go one belter than give you my' plessing on your efforts, I'll give ovu1 a dollar for every f irmer you succeed in getting to undertake it this coming summer. Then," Mr. James continued with a chuckle, "I'll bet you five doll-' ars you don't earn live dollars off of, me next year. ' ' i "I tell you," Mr. James went on, "the farmers have been following so' long the same old grooves their fore fathers taught them to follow; they have worn them so deep; traveled them' so automatically; glide along witii so lintle friction, that it is almost imptw-j sible to pry them out and get them to:., . . 1 follow aiiv other course. Thev would 1 tl,e-v ,are to -tr-v i .,he ne,x! 'ear'; follow the old wavs if thev starved to vp' ..,he-v "rv,'r T',ftH'a 1,1 rklnS Pi .l,,,..!, ' ' sutticient . I have 110 name tor it,' "Why, 1 have known T.ane over here ! "If ' "' , for years, lie is a fine intelligent fob! 'i,ut fl"n 1 lot m0 low, and well re.nl. Feature No. i. MOOSE LODGE ALL STAR VAUDEVILLE SHOW THURSDAY, MARCH 2. GRAND OPERA HOUSE BURNETT H. GOLDSTEIN. (ioldstein will be at his very best. The hig Moose audiences will do the rest. He'll make the people grin and laugh I'util they grow as fat as Taft, Mi'iioliigist. Lawyer, Statesman, Humanitarian. Economist, and Tradegian. Yes, all these and more, Mr Goldstein is also a Thespian, and not alone that, he is u!so candidate for Legislature (and there is no doubt of his nomination) from Multnomah county. Mr. (ioldstein is nil sugar and cream when it comes to Monologue stuff, when he stands before an audience telling stories, you can anticipate one con tinual round of laughter. Mr. (Ioldstein ulso takes part in a three corner act with Charlie Robinson, and Fred L. Moreland. This act which the Moose Com mittee is also trying to bring here, is n hum dinger, so we may have the pleas ure and privilege of hearing Mr. Goldstein twice in the one evening and at the same place. The writer hud the privilege of looking over Mr. Goldstein's press notices, and he is known as the man that can make the Sphinx laugh. There is no doubt lie would replace the serious countenances of C'hemawas pupils with a ray of smiles if they were present to hear him. Mr. (ioldstein is a strong card for the Moose night and is considered one of the main attractions. Feature No. 5 will appear here Tomorrow. Always Watch This Ad Changes Often Strictly correct weight, square deal and highest prices for all kinds of junk, metal, rubber, hides and furs. I pay 2e per pound for old rigs. Big stock of all sizes second hand incubators. All kinds corrugated iron for both roofs and buildings. Eoofiug paper and second hand linoleum. t H. Steinback Junk Co. 1 The House of Half a Million Bargains. 302 North Commercial St. P'aone 803 2 MX SCHOOL RALLY IS HELD If Washington was alive now and accustomed to read ing the war news he would find it harder still to tell a lie. It is as difficult a job as looking at a woman's hair and deciding which is switch. ti i ....i. . . i .... ii -c j: I 1 111 UUIIliai M'llUUl IUIJ VI IIIMIU'V i;u .,.., ' N'. :;- t"t'k llao in West SaWi Vri- p ' nnv !iiirl pfitisi-ttvl fit- fin it iImv nrnrrrnni Kverv once in a , There are enough of them that want to ; .. :'., r,. w,lh..n.l. nrhn-innl cf while we get together, and he speals off discourage you without me helping' sch(iol. serving as chairman to me a whole lot of new ways and i them. There are i few farmers that lead j ' i)jul'lfr as xcrved in the old school practical methods for doing things, and, out, and still more that lag not very.. ,,,, . ' t ,.,..,, ,.i.u,iro. all(i all others present to the number of (?) The program was as follows: l'iaiui solo, by Johauna James. Keeitation Albert Lamb. Dramatization I'rimary Children. Heading Esther Sneed. Violin solo Delbert Moore. Address on Industrial Work for Girls Miss Cowgill. from O. A. C. Dinner. Round Table discussion on live up-to-date school questions. thev too get too old to utilize it." I,.110" t!"KS' 1(llr!l1 h001 M'P"" I ! M 'FTTVi rnr fvisor it. H. Tarsons. I r. 1 1 1 1 l, l . , Address Assistant State Superinteli. ! Siilem, Oregon. Route Xo. 7. dent Charlton. goes on to tell how much better off the tar behind. I really believe the farm- farmers would be if thev onlv would "rs are rousing up more and more all; practice them. Hut Lane is still plod-1 the time. They are gradually becoming i ding along in the same old grooves hislmoie self-asserting, developing their in- grandfather used. JTo has worn them I dividuality. Education is the only thing I so deep he can't even jump tii .indi'hat will help them. Keep shoveling it I catch h(d l at the sin face let alone pull-1 them. There is no question .iboutl ing himself out. their ubiltiv to receive and retaiu it.! There is no class of people on thp earth! blessed with larger and healthier!' to Why the average farmer is seared lenth at the b en of trviiiir some thing new for fear he will i:iil. Thev always want the other fellow to trv it first to see whether it will work. Then they w itch him succeed at it for years jtistl ile they have watched me succeed witn this wheat; eneli year dclarim' brains, l-.ven if t'uey don't use it them-i selves, their children stand a chance to! miliilie the knowledge from them before Since the allies landed in Greece she has almost ceased; to be a nation and is only a spot, and a Greece spot at1 that. ! HURRYING DAYS To the Man on the Roa inmcnumos Wali Mafon Biwmiiiill, "T1 LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1868 CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The march of time is swift and steady, the speeding I days we cannot hold; six weeks of '16 gone already, be-! lore our New Year vows are cold Its truly hard to ; realize it, that six iat weeks have jumped the track; and yet no gentleman denies it, who keeps tab on the almanac. The spring will come before we know it, with all its wealth of growing greens, when every long-j haired bughouse poet sends sonnets to the magazines. The summer will be with us; shortly, to fill a want that's long been felt;! then delegates who're stout and portly will' wonder why they do not melt. And then the fall, both chill and balmy, its place in the procession swipes; and, when the, nights grow cold and clammy, we'll put up stoves and cuss' the pipes. Then winter, arrogant and burly, will shake us with his frosty fins, and we will do our shopping early, ! before the Christmas rush begins. Thus go the days, and thus the seasons, they hurry past, to come no more; and : there art fifty thousand reasons why we should makej 1 each moment score. Talk Today You know what a comfort it is to you; you can realize the comfort it gives the loved ones at home. Our improved "Long Distance" service has made it possible to talk to 1800 cities and towns in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho, connecting 693,000 telephones. THEPAQPICJELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY